Tag Archives: Kevin Michael Hilty

Post navigation

More than a dozen family members and friends gathered in a Denton County courtroom Tuesday to face their sons’ soccer coach one last time before he heads to prison for molesting five boys.

Kevin Hilty, 43, of Frisco didn’t say a word as he sat at the defense table in an orange jail jumpsuit and shackles to listen to the victim impact statements delivered by three parents.

Hilty pleaded guilty Monday, just before jury selection was to begin in his criminal trial. He had been facing up to life in prison if convicted on multiple charges of continuous sexual abuse of a child younger than 14. Instead, the agreement called for pleading guilty to lesser charges. Hilty was convicted on four counts of indecency with a child by contact and one count of indecency with a child. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison as part of the deal. He will have to register as a sex offender once he is released from prison.

Probable cause affidavits from Frisco police say Hilty used intimidation and name-calling to get some of the boys to take off their clothes and play games that involved inappropriate touching on multiple occasions between November 2012 and June 2013.

Deidre Hilty said Monday that her husband didn’t do what he pleaded guilty to doing. She said the criminal case was tainted by former Frisco detective Scott Greer, who resigned amid an investigation into his conduct. She alleged Greer used one or more moms to direct what the boys told police in this case. Greer was dishonorably discharged after officials learned he had inappropriate sexual relationships with several women he met through his cases.

The parents on Tuesday were focused on what Hilty did to their sons.

Finding out what happened “was one of the darkest days of my life,” one Frisco mom said from the witness stand. She and the other parents are not being named to protect the identities of their sons.

“All we wanted to do was close ourselves up in our house and keep our children close to us,” she said.

She said Hilty methodically worked to gain access to their children, using the soccer team and his son to gain parents’ trust. Hilty often hosted the 12-year-old boys at his house for soccer parties or just hanging out. The swimming pool, the basketball hoops, the movie room, the billiards table, the foosball … “it was all part of your scheme,” said the mother, who called Hilty a predator with no boundaries and no remorse.

“Using children for your own gain is evil,” she added.

A father who took the stand said the parents trusted Hilty to teach their sons about playing soccer, about winning and losing and about being young men. “But you did the unthinkable, taken away their innocence,” he said.

His family is ready to put this ordeal behind them, but he said it would be a long time before he could forgive Hilty. “You’re a monster,” he said.

Another father said he also felt betrayed. ”We put our trust in you, and you took it and you stomped on it,” he told Hilty.

“You took something from an amazing child,” the father said about his son. “He’ll never get that back.”